Comments on: Dynafit Release Adjustment Tips and Tricks

By: John

John — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:13:01 +0000

I have a set of FT 12 bindings on Atomic RT 86s. The instructions call for 6mm of heel clearance. At 6mm I can flex the ski up to the point where the pins pull out of the boot heel fairly easily. My main concern is overflexing the ski in the other direction, say while dropping into a chute, and pushing the boot out of the front mechanism. At 4mm I can get pretty close to simulating this.

The relationship between vertical release setting and heel clearance is readily apparent.

What heel spacing do you guys run on your FT 12s?

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:56:04 +0000

Cameron, what boots, body weight and conditions? Any chance either the toe sockets were icy or dirt packed, or that you had ice in the pocket under the binding toe wings? Does this happen any conditions, any day? And how often?

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:28:56 +0000

Lou,

I am having a problem with my dynafit comforts releasing while in the touring lock mode. While skinning some steep slopes they have been popping out while the front tab is pulled up and locked. Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks,

Cameron

By: Jurek

Jurek — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:29:56 +0000

Thanks for the answer, Lou. Yes, I rather should have bought Verticals ST or one of the earlier models, but I hit the FT for a good price. And from the other hand – they are beutiful…

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:12:10 +0000

Jurek, one has to ask, if you only need DIN 6 or below why in the world did you buy FT 12 bindings?

As for how much using one spring lowers the DIN, I don’t know the number but my feeling was that it lowered it quite a bit, at least 1.5.

By: Jurek

Jurek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:58:54 +0000

Hi Lou,
In one of your posts you wrote about removing the inner spring as a method of moving down the range of the lateral release settings. Did you measure the value by which the DIN setting decreased after that trick?
I bought Verticals FT12 recently, and because of my rather low weight (65kg) and the torn (a year ago) ACL I’d like to decrease the lateral release force below DIN 6. To determine the force change obtained by removing inner springs I did the following test: one of the heel units (the one without modifications) set for DIN 6, and from the other removed the inner spring and dialed such value to have subjective feeling (twisting heels units manually) the forces in both heel units are the same. The value was about 7.5, what means that removing the inner spring decreased DIN value by about 1.5. So setting 6 on the scale, without the inner spring give us DIN about 4.5
Do you think I am right? Regards from Poland.